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Fractal conceptual illustration of supersymmetry or superstrings. Supersymmetry (SUSY) is a particle physics theory that proposes a type of spacetime symmetry relating two basic classes of elementary particles: bosons, which have an integer-valued 'spin', and fermions, which have a half-integer spin. If supersymmetry is a true symmetry of nature, it would explain many mysterious features of particle physics and would help solve paradoxes such as the cosmological constant problem. There is only indirect evidence for the existence of supersymmetry, primarily in the form of evidence for gauge coupling unification. Direct confirmation would entail production of superpartners at collider experiments, such as at the Large Hadron Collider.

Space

A crisis in cosmology may mean hidden dimensions really exist

Physicists are scrambling to understand why dark energy is weakening. In a surprising twist, we must now reconsider the possibility that our reality contains extra dimensions

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Space

The bombshell results that demand a new theory of the universe

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Image from a MAYA collaboration numerical relativity simulation of a neutron star-black hole (NSBH) binary merger, showing the disruption of the neutron star. Credit: Deborah Ferguson (UT Austin), Bhavesh Khamesra (Georgia Tech), and Karan Jani (Vanderbilt University).

Space

A bizarre type of black hole could solve three cosmic mysteries in one

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Space

Crisis in cosmology: If we鈥檝e got dark energy wrong, what could it be?

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A member of the media looks at Barnett Newman "Vir Heroicus Sublimis" during a press preview on October 10, 2019, held for the expanded and re-imagined Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) ahead of the October 21 opening of its expanded campus.

Chemistry

The world鈥檚 most elusive colour is worth billions 鈥� if we can find it

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Head of research and development, call sign "Shark", leads the KillHouse drone school in Kyiv, Ukraine. He stands in the middle of a room, filled with electrical equipment, screens, wires, and a desk to do repairs on drones.

Technology

How Ukraine became a drone factory and invented the future of war

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Mind

It鈥檚 your perception of sleep that鈥檚 making you feel tired all day

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Health

Postpartum depression in dads is common 鈥� we can now spot and treat it

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Humans

The untold story of our remarkable hands and how they made us human

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Space

We鈥檝e glimpsed before the big bang and it鈥檚 not what we expected

The big bang wasn鈥檛 the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time

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Environment

Putting a price tag on nature failed. Can radical tactics save it?

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Mind

How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a ‘mind’ really is

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Health

Your BMI can’t tell you much about your health 鈥� here’s what can

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Humans

Why is childbirth so hard for humans 鈥� and is it getting even harder?

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